Cultural change and the ghetto

Ghetto literature, the product of intense feeling and dramatic experience, has always been the most readable material of American urban history, indeed the only books which could command a wide audience.1 Today inter-racial conflict and the segregated pattern of Negro housing in our cities encourage urbanists to seek analogies between the urbanization of European peasants in American cities and the urbanization of the formerly rural American Negro.2 Both literary tradition and current interest create a severe historical distortion. The first tells of the integration of American society through the diffusion of immigrants and their descendants from a first settlement in tight urban clusters to a later suburban inter-mixture. Although such a process of cultural change did take place on a massive scale in many cities, assimilation by way of a ghetto has always been a limited case in American urban history, limited both in time span and in membership. Most foreign immigrants to American cities never lived in ghettos, and most immigrant ghettos that did exist were the product of the largest cities and the eastern and southern European immigrants of

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• Emergent Ethnicity

  William L Yancey, Eugene P Ericksen et al.•American Sociological Review•1976

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• Zur Stellung Historischer Forschungsmethoden und Nicht-Reaktiver Methoden im System der Empirischen Sozialforschung

  Gunter Albrecht•Soziologie und Sozialgeschichte•1972

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• Black Ethnicity and the Persistence of Ethnogenesis

  Ronald L Taylor•American Journal of Sociology•1979

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• Emigrants and Exiles

  Open Access•Kerby A Miller, Bruce Boling et al.•Irish Historical Studies•1980

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• Regulating the reserve army

  Neil Evans, N W Evans•Immigrants & Minorities•1985

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• Residential segregation in the American metropolis

  Open Access•Olivier Zunz•Urban History•1980

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• The Pursuit of Happiness in the City

  Open Access•Eric E Lampard•Transactions of the Royal…•1973

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• The City of Black Angels

  Lawrence B De Graaf•Pacific Historical Review•1970

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• Becoming American

  Thomas Göbel•Labor History•1988

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• Neighborhood and Politics

  Sallie A Marston•Annals of the Association of…•1988

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• The structure of pluralism

  William L Yancey, Eugene P Ericksen et al.•Ethnic and Racial Studies•1985

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• Aboriginal Settlement Patterns in Canadian Cities

  Open Access•Oksana Starchenko, Oksana M Starchenko et al.•Environment and Planning A…•2008

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• Detroit en 1880

  Open Access•Olivier Zunz•Annales Histoire Sciences Sociales•1977

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• Human Ecology

  Open Access•Amos H Hawley•American Behavioral Scientist•1981

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• Perspectives on ethnicity

  Barbara Ballis Lal•Ethnic and Racial Studies•1983

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